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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. It is unusual for aristocrats in Russian to be hanged, and as a child, what does Nabokov call the trail through the woods on the estate where a previous owner had been hanged?
(a) The "Hanging Rope."
(b) The "Path of the Hanged."
(c) The "Road to a Hanging."
(d) The "walk of the Hanged One."

2. What is memorable about this first memory?
(a) He realizes he has the ability to control his own body.
(b) He understands that everyone must eat.
(c) He understands that he is a separate being from his father and mother.
(d) He wonders where his parents are.

3. Where does Nabokov's family live until his father's death in 1922?
(a) In Berlin.
(b) In Brussels.
(c) In Hamburg.
(d) In Paris.

4. During one such trip in the summer of 1909, who does young Nabokov meet?
(a) A young French girl, named Colette.
(b) A young German girl, named Brigitte.
(c) A young British girl, named Beth.
(d) A young Spanish girl, named Clara.

5. Why is Nabokov disappointed to hear that one of his tutors marries a peasant girl?
(a) He thinks of his tutors as people devoted to their art or profession.
(b) He thinks he should have married his aunt.
(c) He thinks he should have married someone in a higher social class.
(d) He thinks he should have married one of his sisters.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who are Miss Norcott and Miss Hunt?

2. What is young Vladimir's main concern?

3. What is happening to the science of butterflies at this time?

4. How does Mademoiselle provide Vladimir with an extra hour or two out of the darkness?

5. When does Nabokov eventually discover a new species?

(see the answer key)

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